Feminine and non-feminist: the mediatic construction of backlash, consumption and post-feminisms

A significativa intervenção dos feminismos na identificação e na desconstrução das práticas sociais ainda dominantes, logo, na emersão de novas perspetivas de mudança, sempre foram obscurecidos e negligenciados, se não mesmo tornados ausentes, no debate com o grande público. Dado o impacto da nova linguagem mediática em torno dos feminismos parece- nos importante o exercício de passar em revista como os constructos neoliberais dos feminismos, sobretudo apropriados pelos veículos de comunicação social, podem ser observados e interpretados como um fenómeno social que envolve, no seu modus operandi, tanto as estruturas de controlo/poder como as lógicas identitárias de uma sociedade marcadamente patriarcal. É o que se pretende fazer no presente artigo.The significant intervention of feminisms in the identification and deconstruction of the dominant social practices and, therefore, in the emergence of new perspectives of change, have always been obscured and neglected, if not absent, in the debate with the general public. Given the impact of the recent media language on feminisms, the analysis of how neoliberalism constructs feminisms, as appropriated by the media seems an important task, particularly as they can be seen and interpreted as a social phenomenon involving, in its modus operandi, both the control / power structures and the identity logics of a strongly patriarchal society. This review is the aim of our article

Ruptura prematura de membransa ovulares: resultados maternos e perinatais da Maternidade do HU-UFSC.

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Curso de Medicina. Departamento de Tocoginecologia

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TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Jornalismo.Este Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso consiste em uma grande reportagem em vídeo que fala sobre o agroturismo ser uma opção de renda extra para os agricultores se manterem no campo com qualidade de vida. Nesta modalidade de turismo, as famílias de agricultores hospedam os turistas em suas propriedades, compartilhando com eles seus modos de vida, rotina de trabalho e cultura local. Em Santa Catarina, a associação Acolhida na Colônia, criada em 1999, é composta por mais de 170 famílias de agricultores e trabalha com a proposta de valorizar o modo de vida no campo por meio do agroturismo. Esta grande reportagem enfatiza os relatos de pessoas que trabalham ou têm alguma relação com este modelo de turismo, contando suas histórias de vida

Consumo de bebidas alcoólicas em diferentes estatutos de estudantes da área da saúde

No geral, 4% da carga global de doença é atribuível ao álcool.1 Estudos indicam que os estudantes universitários, em muitos países, têm um elevado risco de consumo excessivo de álcool, com graves riscos para a saúde

Evaluation of sampling techniques and influence of environmental variables on ants in forest fragments in an oil extraction area in the Amazon

Around the world, urban landscapes are environments modified by man, generally related to low diversity. The efficiency of a biodiversity inventory is linked to the choice of the sampling technique since the taxonomic and ecological responses of the taxons vary between methods. Here we investigate differences in the ant’s composition sampled using three different techniques in two fragments of the urban forest in the Brazilian Amazon. We also assessed whether the different techniques maintained the same ecological responses. We sampled 12 collection points at each fragment, at vegetation, and manual collection and Winkler extractor on the ground. At the same points, soil samples were collected to determine their granulometry, pH, and concentrations of organic matter, sodium, phosphorus, and potassium. We collected 115 taxa and 4720 ants. The Cururu was the richest site with more species in general, as well as in the techniques of manual collection and Winkler. We detected a complementary effect on sampling techniques, which collected different ants’ assemblages. The potassium concentration positively influenced the assemblage’s composition, but its effect varies according to the sampling techniques used. The studied fragments revealed diversity very similar to those registered in continuous Amazonian forests. The use of sampling techniques together improves the representation of the diversity of ants in the studied fragments. Edaphic environmental variables seem to have a predominant effect on ants, affecting their distribution in the landscape even in urban fragments. This highlights the importance of urban forest fragments and their inherent ecological processes

École interactionnelle de fibromyalgie un traitement multidisciplinaire pour une population hétérogène

La douleur est une perception subjective, sensorielle et émotive associée à une lésion tissulaire réelle ou potentielle. Dans certaines conditions pathologiques, la douleur peut se manifester en absence de lésion, comme dans les douleurs chroniques. Le syndrome de la fibromyalgie fait partie de cette dernière catégorie. D'étiologie incertaine, ce syndrome est prédominant chez les femmes adultes (6 femme :10 homme) et se caractérise par la présence de douleur chronique diffuse et d'une sensibilité douloureuse souvent accompangée des symptômes suivants: fatigue, raideur, sommeil non réparateur ou trouble de l'humeur. On utilise de plus en plus des approches multidisciplinaires pour le traitement de la fibromyalgie, malgré une importante variabilité inter sujet au plan de l'amélioration des patients et l'absence de preuve de leur efficacité à long terme. Nos études antérieures démontrent qu'un programme multidisciplinaire structuré (École Interactionnelle du Dos), basé sur les principes de la thérapie brève et stratégique, produit des changements durables (jusqu'à six mois après la fin de l'intervention) chez les patients souffrant de lombalgie chronique. Cette étude vise à élaborer et à évaluer un programme multidisciplinaire pour traiter la fibromyalgie basé sur les mêmes fondements que ceux de l'École Interactionnelle du Dos. Ce programme, appelé l'École Interactonnelle de Fibromyalgie (ÉIF), se déroule en neuf rencontres hebdomadaires de groupe. Son but: augmenter la capacité de gérer les symptômes de la fibromyalgie. Les participantes sélectionnées ont été randomisées en deux groupes: le groupe expérimental qui suit l'ÉIF et le groupe contrôle en liste d'attente. Les patientes sont suivies jusqu'à un an après la fin de l'ÉIF. Les résultats démontrent que l'ÉIF entraîne des changements durables (un an après la fin de l'intervention) et considérables tant au plan des données expérimentales (réduction de l'allodynie mécanique, augmentation du seuil de douleur aux points de sensibilité) qu'au plan des données cliniques (réduction de l'impact de la fibromyalgie et de la douleur clinique). Ces résultats sont remarquables à plusieurs égards. Non seulement l'amélioration est significative mais elle persiste après le traitement alors que le taux d'abandon du programme a été d'à peine 3 %. En outre, des analyses de classification (cluster analysis) révèlent la présence de deux sous groupes qui se distinguent essentiellement à partir de deux caractéristiques psychologiques, soit l'anxiété et la dépression. Cette distinction peut expliquer en grande partie l'hétérogénéité de la manifestation clinique de la fibromyalgie. Enfin, cette étude propose une méthode simple pour identifier les sous-groupes de patients fibromyalgiques.Abstract: Pain is a sensory, emotional, and subjective perception associated with a real or potential tissue lesion. In some pathological conditions, pain can occur without a lesion, as in the case of chronic pain. The fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome is an example of this. Of unclear etiology and predominantly found in women (6 [symbole féminin] :1 [symbole masculin] ), FM is characterized by widespread pain and muscle tenderness often accompanied by fatigue, stiffness, non-restorative sleep, mood disturbance, and a lack of concentration and memory. Multidisciplinary approaches are used more and more to treat FM, despite a lack of proof of their long-term efficacy and despite the large inter-subject variability regarding improvement. In the treatment of chronic low-back pain, our prior studies have demonstrated a durable reduction in pain (up to 6 months) with a multidisciplinary structured program (Interactional School for Low-back Pain) based on the principal of brief and strategic therapy. The present study aimed to create and evaluate a multidisciplinary structured program based on the same principals as those of the Interactional School for Low-back Pain. This program, called the Interactional School of Fibromyalgia (ISF) consists of nine weekly group meetings. The goal is to increase the capacity to self-manage FM symptoms. The participants were randomly placed into one of 2 groups: the experimental group which followed the ISF and the control group which remained on the waiting list. These participants were followed up until one year after the end of the treatment (ISF). The results demonstrated that the ISF produced changes that were durable (one year after) and considerable both for the experimental measures (reduction in mechanical allodynia and increased pain threshold at the FM sensitive points) and for clinical measures (reduced impact of FM and reduced clinical pain). The results are important for several reasons. Not only is the improvement significant but it is also persistent after treatment and the abandon rate was only 3%. In addition, cluster analysis of the results led to the identification of two sub-groups of FM patients distinguishable by two psychological characteristics: anxiety and depression. This distinction could explain in large part the heterogeneity of the clinical manifestations of FM. Thus, this study provides a new and simple method to identify the sub-groups of FM patents. In conclusion, we attribute the positive results to the following characteristics of the ISF : the inclusion of original themes such as breathing techniques and nutrition; the application of interactional principles such as maximising the therapeutic relationship (same 2 facilitators, here physiotherapist and nurse, during the entire ISF); the use of a flexible and personalized program pertinent to a heterogeneous group (which could include both depressed and non depressed, working and unemployed patients)

Lingua Franca Negotiations of Cultural Understandings to Build Friendships: Interrelating Intercultural Awareness and Pragmatic Strategies

In this pandemic and historic season marked by international tensions, we are reminded of the growing relevance of further understanding intercultural communication mediated through English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The negotiation of understandings through ELF intercultural communication has been studied substantially since the focus of ELF research turned from the investigation of features to the underlying processes involved in meaning-making (Jenkins, 2015). In the present study, I critically engaged with previous theoretical constructs of pragmatic strategies (Mauranen, 2003a, 2006; Cogo, 2009; Kaur, 2009; Mauranen, 2012; Cogo and Dewey, 2012; Cogo and House, 2018) and a model of intercultural awareness (ICA) (Baker, 2011, 2015, 2018) to take a step forward and investigate how the interplay of those two aspects impacts the unfolding of Negotiations of cultural understandings in ELF talk (Zhu, 2015). Using Conversation Analysis complemented by ethnographic tools, I analysed the conversations of two Londoner multilingual faith-based communities of practice (Wenger, 1998). Those communities were part of the same broader church community and had building friendships as their main ‘enterprise’. The participants’ super-diverse (Vertovec, 2007, 2019) linguistic and linguacultural repertoires (Risager, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012) led them into the Negotiation of situated meanings, constituted by their understandings of those topics. I examined the unfolding (beginning, middle and ending) of the Negotiations and, among other things, adapted the ICA model to describe a wider range of communicative practices. The findings revealed relevant patterns in the displays of ICA that affected how complexly the topics were treated. It also indicated that some pragmatic strategies had specific functions in the displays and responses to particular ICA levels. This investigation of naturally occurring conversations offered further insights into the processes of pre-empting, fine-tuning, and resolving culture-based mis-/non-understandings, with the potential to inspire future research that will inform ELF-aware pedagogies

Metodologia de análise das dinâmicas do uso e cobertura da terra: o caso do estado de Santa Catarina - Brasil entre 2000 e 2010

The aim of this paper is to examine land use and land cover changes and to relate it to the potential driving forces observed in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, during the period from 2000 to 2010. The methodology consists of identifying trends in land use and land cover changes; indicating possible explanatory factors by means of Principal Component Factor Analysis and elaborating a final typology, based on Cluster Analysis. Results point to the considerable expansion and increased intensity of agricultural activity as well as silviculture throughout the state and the loss of native vegetation, suggesting the need for protective actions and land use and cover regulations, particularly from an environmental perspective, to frame the development of intensive and mechanized agricultural activity.Este artigo objetiva verificar a dinâmica do uso e cobertura da terra e relacioná-la com potenciais forças motrizes dessa dinâmica no estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil, para o período de 2000 a 2010. A metodologia consiste na identificação de tendências na dinâmica de uso e cobertura da terra; apontar possíveis fatores explicativos com base na análise fatorial por componentes principais e na elaboração de uma tipologia final, baseada na análise de clusters. Como resultados, nota-se uma forte expansão e fortalecimento da atividade agropecuária e da silvicultura pelo estado, e perda da vegetação nativa, o que aponta para a necessidade de desenvolver medidas de proteção e de regulamentação da cobertura e uso da terra nomeadamente na vertente ambiental, enquadrando o desenvolvimento de uma atividade agropecuária intensiva e mecanizada.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Morphological and Functional Aspects of Cytoskeleton of Trypanosomatids

Trypanosomatidae are protozoans that include monogenetic parasites, such as the Blastocrithidia and Herpetomonas genera, as well as digenetic parasites, such as the Trypanosoma and Leishmania genera. Their life cycles alternate between insect vectors and mammalian hosts. The parasite’s life cycle involves symmetrical division and different transitional developmental stages. In trypanosomatids, the cytoskeleton is composed of subpellicular microtubules organized in a highly ordered array of stable microtubules located beneath the plasma membrane, the paraflagellar rod, which is a lattice-like structure attached alongside the flagellar axoneme and a cytostome-cytopharynx. The complex life cycle, the extremely precise cytoskeletal organization and the single copy structures present in trypanosomatids provide interesting models for cell biology studies. The introduction of molecular biology, FIB/SEM (focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy) and electron microscopy tomography approaches and classical methods, such as negative staining, chemical fixation and ultrafast cryofixation have led to the determination of the three-dimensional (3D) structural organization of the cells. In this chapter, we highlight the recent findings on Trypanosomatidae cytoskeleton emphasizing their structural organization and the functional role of proteins involved in the biogenesis and duplication of cytoskeletal structures. The principal finding of this review is that all approaches listed above enhance our knowledge of trypanosomatids biology showing that cytoskeleton elements are essential to several important events throughout the protozoan life cycle